[lg policy] Government announces increase to additional language fund at Coatbridge school

[Harold Schiffman]

 Government announces increase to additional language fund at Coatbridge
school

Employability minister Jamie Hepburn visited St Ambrose High to announce
the Scottish Government's extra £3m which will support language learning.

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   - 12:34, 2 MAR 2018
   - Updated12:45, 2 MAR 2018

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[image: Jamie Hepburn with staff and pupils during his visit to St
Ambrose]Jamie
Hepburn with staff and pupils during his visit to St Ambrose

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St Ambrose High was the venue for a Scottish Government funding
announcement to help school pupils learn additional languages.

Employability minister Jamie Hepburn visited the Coatbridge school to meet
pupils and find out more about their current cross-curricular projects in
Spanish, science and computing.

He was greeted by head girl and boy Iona Clancy and Michael Higgins, and
went on to tour the school with senior pupils, staff and head teacher Ellen
Douglas.

The MSP was visiting to announce the Scottish Government’s additional £3
million to support language learning – with North Lanarkshire receiving
£212,000 from the national allocation.

It will enable every pupil to start learning an additional language in
Primary One and a second additional language by Primary Five, and for
language learning to continue to the end of third year at secondary school.

Mandarin, Gaelic and British Sign Language are among the languages
included, as well as European languages.

Scottish Government figures show that Higher language passes have increased
by more than 11 per cent in the past decade, while attainment of “modern
language for life and work” qualifications rose by more than one third in
2015-2016; but that a lack of language skills was estimated to have cost
the Scottish economy half a billion pounds in 2011.

Mr Hepburn said: “Learning languages is becoming more crucial than ever –
research shows that employers strongly favour candidates with language
skills and we want to ensure young Scots are equipped with the skills they
need in the global marketplace.

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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